Introduction
You know for some reason (mainly because we may need it)
memories of how and why we fell spiritually in the past can come to us.
What is Important in such Memories?
Our Psychological State
What is more important than anything else in these memories
is the psychological state that we had when we fell. If we can remember the
psychological state we have some precious information.
This is more important than the esoteric degree that we had,
the physical circumstances, the people involved, the country , the time, the
culture, the body male or female etc. etc.
Why is this So?
Psychological States Cause a Fall and our Psychological States Repeat through
our Lives
Why is this? Because, it was precisely our psychological
state that caused us to fall or lose what we had of spirituality. And very
critically, because it was a psychological state it is going to repeat itself.
The country, people, time, body, circumstances etc. will all be different but
what will be the same will be the psychological state.
To fall is a decision that we take and to know the process
in our mind and heart that led us to take that decision is very interesting and
so valuable for our own knowledge and for others as well.
A Real Example
Here is a real example, look at such a psychological state:
“the value of what had been achieved spiritually seemed now to have little
meaning or value. Boredom was felt intensely, stagnation was strongly present,
a resentment, a kind of stale bitterness was savoured, a lack of interest in
nearly everything moved through the centres of the human machine, it was like
one’s motivation, yearning, will had all left or failed and the thought process
began: “I have gotten this far and I can always get this back again”. Worldly
pleasure then seemed not so empty and seemed to promise excitement, and someone
sort of protection that would embrace and protect one from the pain and bitterness
that one knew would come when decided to throw away spirituality and dive into
pleasure.”
The Learning
We have to analyse such psychological states and see deep
into them and to learn from them and dissolve them because they will repeat themselves
in the future. A lot of our psychological states are not new they are
repetitions of the past.
Stagnation is Dangerous – Avoid it – Work to Produce a Higher Octave and
Flow Forward
Stagnation is very dangerous in our work. We in the work are
exactly like water. Water to remain clean and fresh has to flow and move. So
must we in the work. When water stands still it becomes stagnant, and when we
do not move forward in the work we stagnate and we end up falling into
mechanicity where we then get into trouble, we get bored, and start to look for
the new but in the wrong direction, in the direction that comes most immediate,
which is through the ego and that puts us in grave trouble just depending on
what ego catches us. If it is lust we are in trouble, if it is alcohol we are
in trouble, it is self-love we are in trouble, if it is greed we can be in
trouble, generally we will always be in trouble but some egos are much worse
than others. We can easily reverse some but some are not so easily reversed, or
are either very costly to reverse.
Resentment is Deadly
We have to learn to forgive, more our own fellow Gnostics!
We have to for ourselves, for our path and for our Being. Resentment is very
negative it causes us to devalue the work, it produces envy and wants us to
throw our work so to escape from resentment and win the pity of those who we
resent.
You know everyone has difficulty in the work or had
difficulty and has had to face their resentments. So do we and we should not
feel less because of that. What matters is that we work and overcome.
The Being in us is the Most Precious Treasure we Have
We should never stop seeing our Being as a treasure. When we
stop remembering that or feeling that, we are in trouble. Self-remembering is so
so important! The work is a way to the treasure and so how we can devalue the
work if we value our treasure – our very own Being? Very difficult - only if we are crazy.
“Gotten this Far, I can get it Back Anytime I want” – Yes and No!
We can get our spirituality back but when is the question.
It is usually hundreds of years before we can. When we really throw our
spirituality we lose control and we do not get it back when we want. We get
it back when it is decided for us that we get it back and this may be hundreds of
years in the future.
This is because we fell asleep and we forget the work, the path,
the consciousness and the Being, and because we have to pay our karma for
throwing something so valuable away! We threw our will away and karma then
takes our will away from us until after we have suffered and have come to fully
realise and appreciate its value.
You fall you lose
control!!!
Pleasure does not Protect – it Shines Deceptively, Promises Falsely,
Enslaves and Embitters
This is a good lesson, worldly pleasure shines promising fulfilment,
purpose, comfort, happiness, protection, but in truth these pleasures are
fleeting and empty and can not protect one from pain, ill heath, death, karma, ignorance,
etc. They often cause all of these things in the end anyway.
One, after falling into pleasure becomes a slave to it and
this greatly embitters the life of the one who has fallen into it. The demoralisation
of having lost our will and fallen into pleasure causes countless other very
self-destructive actions, this is all because one loses a great amount of value
before one’s own eyes, that is one does not respect oneself anymore. This
causes one to create so many other degenerated egos. Such as all the different variations or diversions of violence and lust.
End (970).
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